Glocal English

Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world's two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world's fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary examples from the mass media and the author's rich experiential data, the book isolates the peculiar structural, grammatical, and stylistic characteristics of Nigerian English and shows its similarities as well as its often humorous differences with British and American English. Although Nigerian English forms the backdrop of the book, it will benefit teachers of English as a second or foreign language across the world. Similarly, because it presents complex grammatical concepts in a lucid, personal narrative style, it is useful both to a general and a specialist audience, including people who study anthropology and globalization. The true-life experiential encounters that the book uses to instantiate the differences and similarities between Nigerian English and native varieties of English will make it valuable as an empirical data mine for disciplines that investigate the movement and diffusion of linguistic codes across the bounds of nations and states in the age of globalization.

Autorentext

Farooq A. Kperogi is Assistant Professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. A former Nigerian newspaper journalist, he received his PhD in communication from Georgia State University, Atlanta, his MS in communication from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and his BA in mass communication from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. During his doctoral studies, he won the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. He also won the Outstanding Master's Student in Communication Award at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the Nigerian Television Authority Prize for the Best Graduating Student in Mass Communication at Bayero University, Kano. He is published widely and blogs at www.farooqkperogi.com.

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Contents: Conceptualizing Nigerian English - Are There Native English Speakers in Nigeria? - Comparing Broken English, Pidgin English, and Nigerian English - American English, British English, and «Bastardization» - Grammatical Dialectics and the Politics of Meaning and Usage in English - Between Useless and Useful Tautologies in English - The African Origins of Common English Words - Nigerianisms, Americanisms, Briticisms, and Communication Breakdown - Top Hilarious Differences between American and Nigerian English - Grammatical Errors Common to Americans and Nigerians - Comparing the Vernaculars of American, British, and Nigerian Universities - Grammar of Titles and Naming in British, American, and Nigerian English - The English of the Nigerian News Media - Nigerian English's Unique Telephonic Vocabularies - Top Cutest and Strangest Nigerian English Idioms - Back-formation and Affixation in Nigerian English - Most Popular Mangled Expressions in Nigerian English - Peculiar Salutations in Nigerian English - Top Exclamatory Expressions in Nigerian English - When Food and Grammar Mix - Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce - Politics and Nigerian English Usage - Grammar of Nigerian Politics.